Gareth O’Connor

Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released immediately from ICE custody Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ordered Abrego be released immediately, citing a lack of a final order of removal for Abrego.

UPDATE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from ICE custody following a federal judge's order, his legal team says.

Friday’s Irish Independent: “Flu now on track to peak during Christmas week” #TomorrowsPapersToday

Guardian: “UK facing worst winter flu crisis within a fortnight as cases surge” #TomorrowsPapersToday

BBC 10pm leading with soaring flu cases in UK

UK Independent: War “like our grandparents endured” #Tomorrowspaperstoday

This MTV recording I found from an extremely golden age of 1994 is a time capsule of exactly specifically the last time the world existed before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” as shown by this ominous trailer. Make of that what you will.

Exclusive: US preparing to seize more tankers off Venezuela's coast after first ship taken, sources say The U.S. is preparing to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil following the seizure of a tanker this week, as it increases pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, six sources fami...

Reuters Exclusive: The U.S. is preparing to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil following the seizure of a tanker this week, according to six sources familiar with the matter. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Sad to hear this, a news institution and a Thursday tradition in Monaghan 📰

#ClimateEmergency 🌍

Man in court on terror charges over planned attack A 38-year-old man has appeared in court on terror charges following a cross-border investigation into violent right-wing extremism.

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McEntee to outline €1.7bn defence spending plan Minister for Defence Helen McEntee will outline a €1.7 billion defence spending plan that will run until 2030.

Govt to outline a €1.7 billion defence spending plan www.rte.ie/news/politic...

María Corina Machado appears in Oslo after Nobel Peace Prize win Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding since January, speaks to the BBC in Oslo after her secretive journey.

#BBCNews - Venezuelan opposition leader makes first public appearance after months in hiding
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#MariaCorinaMachado

Thursday’s Irish Times P1

🚨 Luas Green Line still out of service this morning 🚈

🗣️ "Our flu numbers are drastically increased from where they normally would be... the variety of flu that we have this year, we haven't seen for a few years." — Dr. Christine Loscher, Professor of Immunology, DCU
#TonightVMTV

Thursday’s Irish Examiner #TomorrowsPapersToday

Thursday’s Irish Independent #TomorrowsPapersToday

Newsnight leading with Venezuela

Tuesday’s Guardian P1 #TomorrowsPapersToday

Thursday press preview #TomorrowsPapersToday

The United States is drifting closer to its next Forever War, one whose impact can't be kept away from its homeland borders, in the dumbest possible way

Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, three officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and ...

Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast, US officials say - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

U.S. Fed lowers interest rates for third cut this year

Luas says Dublin’s Green Line won’t be back operating during the peak evening commuter period 🚈

Iceland joins Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Netherlands in Eurovision 2026 boycott #Eurovision #Eurovision26

Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case A judge has ruled secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public.

BREAKING: A judge has ruled secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public.

Ana Corina Sosa Machado (R), daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, receives the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her mother from the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jorgen Watne Frydnes at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on December 10, 2025

#BREAKING Daughter of absent Peace Prize laureate, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, accepts Nobel on her behalf

Sophie Kinsella, author of Shopaholic series of novels, dies aged 55 The writer, whose real name was Madeleine Sophie Wickham, revealed last year she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022.

RIP Sophie Kinsella news.sky.com/story/sophie...

Cleaning up in Bray after the storm caused coastal flooding #StormBram ⛈️